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Frederick the Great, subtitled "The Campaigns of The Soldier King 1756–1759", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1975 that simulates several of the campaigns of Frederick the Great in Central Europe during the Seven Years' War. When SPI ran into financial difficulties, they sold the rights to the game to Avalon Hill, who produced a second edition in 1982. Description Frederick the Great is a two-player game in which one player tries to recreate the successes Frederick the Great and his British-Hanoverian allies enjoyed despite fighting against numerically superior armies, and the other player controls the forces of the Coalition (Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, and the Holy Roman Empire.) The rules emphasize the importance of leadership and battlefield maneuvers. For instance, combat units cannot move without a leader. Components The original SPI ziplock bag edition of the game includes: 21" x 32" paper hex grid map scaled at 22 km (13.5 mi) per hex 200 die-cut counters rules booklet The SPI boxed edition includes a small six-sided die. In the Avalon Hill edition, the number of counters is increased to 240, and the paper map has been replaced with a mounted map. Gameplay The first player does the following phases (with the exception of the defender's "forced march" phase): Reinforcement Phase Morale Recovery Phase Depot Creation Phase Phasing Player March Phase Non-phasing Player Forced March Phase Combat Phase Siege Resolution Phase Non-phasing Player Attrition Phase. Then the second player runs through the same phases — this completes one turn, which is one fortnight in game time.

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Notable quotes

“I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.”
— Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 37 from Frederick to Voltaire (June 1738)
“Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. — This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.”
— Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 215 from Frederick to Voltaire (1776-03-19)
“"It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?”
— Ch. 3 : Mixed Principalities
“If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.”
— Ch. 6 : New States That The Prince Acquires By His Valor And His Own Weapons
“If my soldiers began to think, not one would remain in the ranks.”
— Attributed in J.A. Houlding, Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715-1795 (Oxford, 1981)
“They were stronger than Turk and Saracen, but not than Hunger and Disease. Leaders did not know then, as our little Friend at Berlin came to know, that “an Army, like a serpent, goes upon its belly."”
— Attributed in Thomas Carlyle, “History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great", (1858).

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Overview

Frederick the Great, subtitled "The Campaigns of The Soldier King 1756–1759", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1975 that simulates several of the campaigns of Frederick the Great in Central Europe during the Seven Years' War. When SPI ran into financial difficulties, they sold the rights to the game to Avalon Hill, who produced a second edition in 1982. Description Frederick the Great is a two-player game in which one player tries to recreate the successes Frederick the Great and his British-Hanoverian allies enjoyed despite fighting against numerically superior armies, and the other player controls the forces of the Coalition (Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, and the Holy Roman Empire.) The rules emphasize the importance of leadership and battlefield maneuvers. For instance, combat units cannot move without a leader. Components The original SPI ziplock bag edition of the game includes: 21" x 32" paper hex grid map scaled at 22 km (13.5 mi) per hex 200 die-cut counters rules booklet The SPI boxed edition includes a small six-sided die. In the Avalon Hill edition, the number of counters is increased to 240, and the paper map has been replaced with a mounted map. Gameplay The first player does the following phases (with the exception of the defender's "forced march" phase): Reinforcement Phase Morale Recovery Phase Depot Creation Phase Phasing Player March Phase Non-phasing Player Forced March Phase Combat Phase Siege Resolution Phase Non-phasing Player Attrition Phase. Then the second player runs through the same phases — this completes one turn, which is one fortnight in game time.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.”
— Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 37 from Frederick to Voltaire (June 1738)
“Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. — This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.”
— Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 215 from Frederick to Voltaire (1776-03-19)
“"It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?”
— Ch. 3 : Mixed Principalities
“If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.”
— Ch. 6 : New States That The Prince Acquires By His Valor And His Own Weapons
“If my soldiers began to think, not one would remain in the ranks.”
— Attributed in J.A. Houlding, Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715-1795 (Oxford, 1981)
“They were stronger than Turk and Saracen, but not than Hunger and Disease. Leaders did not know then, as our little Friend at Berlin came to know, that “an Army, like a serpent, goes upon its belly."”
— Attributed in Thomas Carlyle, “History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great", (1858).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Frederick the Great, subtitled "The Campaigns of The Soldier King 1756–1759", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1975 that simulates several of the campaigns of Frederick the Great in Central Europe during the Seven Years' War. When SPI ran into financial difficulties, they sold the rights to the game to Avalon Hill, who produced a second edition in 1982.

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